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“Nationwide” Farmers’ Strike: Punjab Farmer Unions Choose Premature Call-Off
Bharti Kisan Union members protest in Jalandhar. (Pardeep Pandit/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Farmer unions in Punjab have chosen to call off their 10-day long agitation early on 6 June, four days in advance, a report in News18 has said. The stir began on 1 June. Four farmer organisations from Punjab jointly announced that they will end the agitation early Wednesday. The decision was announced at a press meet in Ludhiana.
The next course of action will be made public after a meeting of 172 farmer organisations, under whose aegis the agitation was spearheaded. Balbir Singh Rajewal, State president of the Bharti Kisan Union, claimed that the government was trying to create a rift among farmers owing to which a decision to call off the agitation was taken.
Several instances of miscreants dragging unwilling farmers into the protests have also been reported across the country during the strike.
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